While some emphasise the quality of material elements such as inputs, local production and design, others focus on immaterial aspects such symbolic value and exclusivity.
Recent projects include a full-scale installation that tests an experimental approach to material reuse and a temporary pavilion that makes concrete the immaterial aspects of digital production.
Carey summarizes the abiding obsession in the novels as the collision of "the spiritual and the miraculous" with "science and rationality," and it is this persistent hypersensitivity to the numinous and immaterial aspects of the world and the human condition that sets Golding apart from the broad river of social realism that so defines the 20th-century English novel.
Interaction design methods aim at optimising interactions between humans, tools and environments, considering material tools, immaterial aspects like the interaction modalities, contextual aspects.
Approaches of social construction in IR are critical supplements rather than denial of neorealist theories highlighting immaterial aspects of IR, such as identities, values, and cultural constitutions for IR (Copeland 2000).
Governing Africa's development "is not only about material things but also immaterial aspects of a food system," he added.
Is the world driven purely by matter and the laws of nature, or are those things mere embodiments of another, immaterial, intelligent aspect of the universe?" (p. 125).
While there is occasional talk about the beneficial impact of musical education on memory, self-discipline, good grades and social life, the immaterial and aesthetic aspects of music tend to be overlooked.
One would be to defend the thesis that although our natural (and hence material) minds can form no conception of an immaterial, there is another aspect of our minds — an aspect that is not material — and it can form conceptions of immaterials.
(a) The 'ectoplasm' account: The view that immaterial substance is a kind of immaterial stuff.
